Property Rights Of Married Women
This is Chapter 3 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Property Rights Of Married Women.” It is part of Title 55, titled “Property And Conveyances.” It’s comprised of the following 15 sections.
- § 55-35
- How married women may acquire and dispose of property
- § 55-36
- Contracts of, and suits by and against, married women
- § 55-37
- Spouse not responsible for other spouse's contracts, etc.; mutual liability for necessaries; responsibility of personal representative
- § 55-38
- Wife's right of entry into land not barred by certain judgments; when she may defend her right in lands which are her inheritance
- § 55-39
- Rights of wife, etc., not affected by husband's acts only
- § 55-40
- Repealed
- § 55-41
- Conveyance from husband and wife; effect on right of wife or husband
- § 55-42
- Repealed
- § 55-42.1
- How infant spouse may release interests in spouse's property
- § 55-43
- Appointment of attorney in fact by married women; effect of writing executed by such attorney
- § 55-44
- Repealed
- § 55-46
- How estate of a married woman to pass at death
- § 55-47
- Repealed
- § 55-47.01
- Equitable separate estates abolished
- § 55-47.1
- Tangible personal property